Hi Shishir,

The XML spec says -

"The ampersand character (&) and the left angle
bracket (<) must not appear in their literal form,
except when used as markup delimiters, or within a
comment, a processing instruction, or a CDATA section.


If they are needed elsewhere, they MUST be escaped
using either numeric character references or the
strings "&amp;" and "&lt;" respectively."

So, you must specify them as &amp; and &lt; in your
XML.

Regards,
Mukul

 
--- shishir.srivastava@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi All,
> I create a text node in an xml document which might
> contain characters like
> "&"  and <(angle brackets) to say atleast.
> Now when this is parsed by xslt parser it throws an
> error saying
> 
> "could not parse input XML document
> SAX Exception
> Invalid character in reference"
> 
> what i did --
> at the time of generation of node ,i look for "&"
> and "angle brackets" in
> data and replace these characters.
> then it works fine.
> 
> but i really want to know is this the best method to
> achieve this?
> or we have any better practice?
> 
> I am using XML4J, as  XML processor, and LotusXSL as
> xslt parser.
> 
> Thanks & Regards
> ___________________________
> Shishir Srivastava
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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